Don’t Beat Yourself Up
Don’t Beat Yourself Up
Turn to any page of St. Faustina's Diary, and you'll find spiritual gems like this one:
Suddenly, I found myself in a strange cottage where an elderly man was dying amidst great torments. … When I began to pray … The soul became calm and, filled with trust, rested in the Lord.
At the same moment, I found myself again in my own room. How this happens... I do not know. (Diary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska, 1797)
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My daughter, all your miseries have been consumed in the flame of My love, like a little twig thrown into a roaring fire. By humbling yourself in this way, you draw upon yourself and upon other souls an entire sea of My mercy. (Diary 178).
Turn to any page of St. Faustina’s Diary, and you’ll find spiritual gems, like this one:I became absorbed in prayer and said my penance. Then I suddenly saw the Lord, who said to me, My daughter, know that you give Me greater glory by a single act of obedience than by long prayers and mortifications. Oh, how good it is to live under obedience, to live conscious of the fact that everything I do is pleasing to God! (Diary, 894).
Turn to any page of St. Faustina’s Diary, and you’ll find spiritual gems. Like this one:“... For quite a long time I was regarded as one possessed by the evil spirit, and I was looked upon with pity [by the superior and other sisters].”
